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De Korf (2012)

by Charles Burns(Favorite Author)

3.93 of 5 Votes: 2

languge

English

genre

Horror

publisher

Oog & Blik

series

X'ed Out Trilogy

review 1: "The Hive" is a surreal tale about Doug, an aimless kid who performs as the mascot to a local punk band named Bacon and has a disturbed girlfriend who obsessively reads Romance Comics. The story takes a few turns to his mascot character who delivers romance comics to sick, dying girls. There's a lot of conscious and subconscious role playing going on here and part of the fun of reading "The Hive" is figuring out how many parallels occur between both stories since after all it's basically the two faces of Doug. (By the way the mascot character looks a lot like Doug from Nickelodeon). And of course it's always a blast seeing Charles Burns art in color - finally!
review 2: Anything I've read or seen by Charles Burns is weird. This is no exception. He has a knack o... moref making you feel uncomfortable. Real but unreal, you can imagine you're there and it's creepy.The Hive is no different. Even though I read it out of order, X'ed Out the first in this tryptic, it totally stood alone as a self contained story, although one I need to read again as the overlapping of dreams, metaphors and symbols for our hero Doug I only grasped near the end of the book.Really enjoyable, look forward to the next instalments.---14 June 2013 - much easier to understand having read X'ed Out first. less

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